It’s the last (visual, non-quoted) line in the movie Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ at Heaven’s Door. One of the recurring themes in the movie (and greater show arguably) is how someone can be trapped in a state where reality is more than subjective, but distorted. They see different, they hear different. Maybe to them it’s all […]
Category: Rants
The Future of Company Towns
Earlier, I was listening to the March 21st episode of Preet Bahara’s Stay Tuned podcast. In it, he interviewed the founder of Sun Microsystems—spawn of Java, the Scourge of Programming—and current venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. Among many things discussed was a prediction made by Khosla: that in the next fifty to sixty years, we would […]
Fuck Twitter
And fuck the rebranding attempt. I’m a manchild and even I realize when something is too far. You wouldn’t even see ‘X.com’ in a schlocky movie like Ultraviolet. Anyway. While I’m shouting at clouds, fuck that detritus of a website. The absolute worst of social media’s impact on humanity, condensed into a comfortable, what? 280 […]
AI, Art, and Human Expression
I’m trying something different for this, where I talked out loud to myself about the topic before transcribing it to a document. I’ve edited what I said for grammar’s sake and overall coherency, but other than that it’s my stream of consciousness. AI will only get better, easier to use and more prevalent. Sure, there’ll […]
The Mind Is A Terrible Thing
A few weeks ago, I rediscovered hypnosis mp3s. Not to lose weight, or break habits per se, but entertaining ones. Hypnosis teters on the edge of pseudoscience and outright charlatanism, but in truth, it’s simply a trusting mind in need of affirmation, and a confident voice able to provide such. In that regard, hypnosis can […]
Imbued Passion
We’ve all seen some piece of media that’s absolutely taken us. Maybe it’s a show or movie that goes beyond being entertaining, and utterly captivates us, enraptures us until after it’s over, we don’t quite feel like the world is the same. Perhaps it’s a piece of music that sounds as if the artist used […]
The Future
Unless you live under an actual rock, it’s hard to not notice people talking about how everything’s just getting worse. Surprise surprise, this is one of those rants about the future. I also apologize for anyone who’s not living in America, as this is going to be another Loud American rambling about the entire world […]
Splunk
Maybe it’s a sign of my relative inexperience in the wide, wide world of enterprise IT, but a part of me always thought the happy, preppy IT company with a silly name and a cultish fixation on cultivating their employee community was an exaggeration. Of course many companies fulfill the exaggeration in part: Flickr, Twitter, […]
